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Top cash prize of $6,000 offered in annual state securities division essay contest

Top cash prize of $6,000 offered in annual state securities division essay contest

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life PIERRE — For the ninth year, the South Dakota Department of Labor and Regulation’s Division of Securities is giving high school seniors an opportunity to turn their knowledge of finances into actual cash.
“How to Create Financial Independence by Understanding Five Principles of Investing”...
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2013-10-21 12:10:28

PIERRE — For the ninth year, the South Dakota Department of Labor and Regulation’s Division of Securities is giving high school seniors an opportunity to turn their knowledge of finances into actual cash.

“How to Create Financial Independence by Understanding Five Principles of Investing” is the title of the investor education and protection initiative. It invites South Dakota high school seniors to submit an essay that could earn them cash prizes.

Under contest rules, essays must include one page on each of the five principles below:

• Explain what a Ponzi scheme is and discuss common red flags that indicate the fraud.

• Use a financial calculator to illustrate how you can obtain $1 million by the age of 67.

• Discuss two different investment products in each level of the pyramid of investment risk: low, medium, high.

• Research and discuss the three following types of retirement plans: Traditional IRA, Roth IRA and 401(k).

The Securities Division will grade the papers to determine winners for first place through fifth place. The first-place winner receives $6,000. All high school seniors are encouraged to participate.

Other cash prizes include $5,000 for second place, $3,500 for third place, $2,500 for fourth place and $1,500 for fifth place. The remaining qualified submissions will be placed into grade categories A-B-C-D with a random drawing to award additional cash prizes of $1,000 (A category), $750 (B category), $500 (C category) and $250 (D category).

In addition to submitting the essay, students must be sponsored by a teacher from their high school. Cash will be awarded to teachers sponsoring winning essays, to the teacher who sponsors the most qualifying students from their school and to a random drawing winner.

The deadline to submit entries to the essay contest is Jan. 21, with winners to be announced by April 30. Only hard copy entries will be accepted.